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Sports

//spɔːts// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of sport form-of, plural
  2. 2
    Synonym of sport (“the class of physical activies; athletics”). uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of sport form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
  2. 2
    To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question.

    "But I have a feeling that in many senses the American consumer is getting over-sportsed."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From sport + -s.

Etymology 2

From sport + -s.

Etymology 3

From sport + -s.

Etymology 4

From sport + -s.

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